Turnaround: How Americas Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic

Turnaround : How Americas Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic

William Bratton through the book Turnaround : How Americas Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic ' talks about everything right from his childhood days in Boston to his falling out with New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani . The book begins with an interesting incident of Bratton childhood when he was just one and half year old and his mother had caught him directing traffic in the street near to his Boston home . But the actual focus of Bratton and his coauthor , Peter Knobler , has been his

efforts in revitalizing the police departments first in Boston and later in New York . The book provides an insight into various innovative ideas , techniques and concepts that Bratton envisaged during his tenure as a Police Commissioner in above mentioned two cities . Some of the pioneering efforts that have got a mention in the book are the community policing and sanitizing the Boston 's subway system . His great insight of crime and criminal activities provided various new concepts to the police department . The most simple but effective was severe crackdown on minor offences as Bratton had a view that those who commit smaller crimes would also commit serious ones underground . During his tenure as NYPD top cop , the city 's crime rate dropped over 10 percent a year In Turnaround , Bratton has described several successful police initiatives including the use computer based crime mapping that later helped the police in zeroing to the crime hot spots . These crime prone...